I removed my W40 from it's compartment to the galley floor last weekend. The pictures are at
http://s1261.photobucket.com/albums/ii598/barrylab1/
Once the idiot moves his car, I can drop it into the bed of a pickup truck and deliver it to the rebuild shop just down the street.
Nice! Thanx for the shots. Looks like the welded pipe works well. Please be sure to let us know what the costs were to do the rebuild. Lots of people talk about repowering, but haven't heard about what people do for rebuilds and what they spend to do it.
If it is any kind of pickup, that car should slide on that surface with little effort. Hey, you already did the hard work, rearranging the car should be a piece of cake.
Nice job.
Dale Tanski
Just imagine a car top rack carring the 400 pound engine on the roof of the car.
As the engine sat all week on the galley sole, I decided to get it to the ground, where I can pick it up Monday and deliver it to the rebuild shop. As I have chosen to simplify the lifting rig, I've used a web belt to tie the chain-fall to the boom. This means once there is weight on it, I can't move it. It also means I can only lift in one direction with the chain-fall. To get horizontal movement, I used a come-along to pull bow-ward while I lifted up from astern pictures at:http://s1261.photobucket.com/albums/ii598/barrylab1/From%20the%20Galley%20to%20the%20cockpit/
The mistakes I made were not ensuring there was enough scope on the come-along to allow the engine into the cockpit, and connecting the chain-fall hook to only the front lift point on the engine. Basically, I didn't plan it, I just did it. This resulted in the engine being lifted transmission down, with a serious list. when I got it to the companionway opening, I had to cut the webbing as I was out of scope on the come-along, and now trapped below. The result was damaged bright work, and an extended knowledge of new cuss words. (I'm convinced this is a way to fill time while trying to figure out a solution.)
Once in the cockpit, I found the hook had jammed into the lift point at an odd angle resulting in a chain-fall that could go up, but not down again. I left it for the night and came back with a new plan.
I braced the hanging engine from all sides, put jack stands under it, shimming with wood from the yard. I then used a bottle jack to lift one side, and lowered the boom to put slack on the chain-fall hook. It held while I took the hook out, and put the lifting bar (I built this morning)
in place and hooked to both lift points. From there it was 15 minutes work to get it up, over and down.
Pictures at: http://s1261.photobucket.com/albums/ii598/barrylab1/From the Cockpit to the ground/
There's one picture in there of the refurbished Max-Prop I just got back. (Those guys at PYI are great).
Made it to the rebuild shop this afternoon. He'll open her up and give me an estimate within a few days. I'll post everything in this thread.
Wow! Your a hero in my book! I removed the transmission, starter and exhaust manifold before removing "the beast". Those 3 components alone weighed in at around 150 lbs if I recall.